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NASA's Perseverance Scheduled to Land on Mars on Thursday
Love the Rover's Twitter bio: Hobbies: Photography, collecting rocks, off-roading.Link to tweet
NASA is ready:
Link to tweet
Emmanuel Macron is excited about it:
Link to tweet
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Very tricky sky crane landing though, the rover is the size of a small SUV, and humans are out of the loop on the actual landing, good luck robot!
and no solar panels to get dusty, uses a plutonium nuclear battery for power
Even better, its bringing its own drone to fly around!
Ingenuity: A man's decades-long quest to fly a helicopter on Mars
NASA is about to fly a rotorcraft on another planet for the first time
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https://astronomy.com/news/2020/07/the-path-to-ingenuity-one-mans-decades-long-quest-to-fly-a-helicopter-on-mars